Democrat Joe Jaworski, who runs as Attorney General in 2026

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Joe Jaworski, a lawyer and former mayor of Galveston, is again running for the Attorney General in Texas, three years after the unsuccessful offer for democratic nomination, the highest civil lawyer of the state.

Jaworski will be exposed to another competitive primary school in this cycle. Senator Nathan Johnson, D-Dallas, starts his own offer for Attorney General at the beginning of this week.

Since his loss of drainage of 2022, Jaworski said that he had spent a large part of the past three years to think about how it can best serve Texas and can build the name recognition through social media and a radio program.

He said his 35 years as a lawyer who “equipped the client's constitutional and civil rights against notorious criminals and mishaps” as well as his term as mayor of Galveston in order to lead the general prosecutor's office.

“For me, this is the Sweet Spot in the state government if you want to change in an office,” he said in an interview and added that he was “a lawyer for the people in Texas and more of a General Counsel for a political party”.

In 2022, Jaworski achieved second place in the March area code and landed far behind the civil rights lawyer Rochelle Garza, who easily defeated him in the runoff election.

“I immediately supported Ms. Garza and was sad to see how she loses America against the most reprehensible Attorney General,” said Jaworski. “Maybe it wasn't my time back then, but I have the feeling that time is.”

He said that this time he was better prepared, with a stronger team, the campaign manager Diana Arévalo, a democratic strategist who represented a term in San Antonio in Texas House.

As Garza's 10-point defeat showed, Democrats are facing a hard path to the state office in Texas. Jaworski is confident that he will benefit from a medium -term boost -like in 2018 when the Texas Democrats had had their strongest performance for years and the first race of the Attorney General for over a decade for over a decade for the ballot.

After a re -election for the US Senate, a crowded GOP field has developed on the ballot, including State Sens. Joan Huffman from Houston and Mayes Middleton from Galveston and former lawyer of the Ministry of Justice, Aaron Reitz.

Jaworski predicted that until November 2026 there would be a “growing feeling of the alarm” among moderate Republicans who oppose some of the more extreme politics of Trump, and whoever wins democratic nomination for the general prosecutor will be faced with an opponent who “pags on the conversation topics from Trump. And I think that this person will be left very much.”

He plans to introduce a platform in the coming weeks, but said that his focus was on lying that it was easier for the justified Texans, including encouragement more students to register, and the protection of the consumer and the removal of the current focus of the office on the blocking of the liberal guidelines that come into force.

“Texas explicitly needs a democrat who acts as a attorney in general to examine corruption, keep those who are corrupt and to form coalitions with other attorney in general in order to combat the government's attack on the individual rights and the constitution of the United States,” said Jaworski.

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